The picture above is a rough sketch of digital inclusion (we’ll return to this below.) In Introduction to Civic Media, last week we read several texts about digital inequality. We traced the transformation of this conversation since the 1990s, when many still talked about a binary ‘Digital Divide,’ to the […]
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Some parts of the world have already moved on from solving the problems of digital divide of ‘have’ and ‘have-nots’ to solving problems of digital inequality. Uzbekistan, however, is a place where both digital divide and inequality are still evident, with purposefully constructed limitations like censorship and surveillance on top […]
Liveblog of Patrick Sharkey’s presentation to the Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series at Harvard on September 23, 2013. Patrick Sharkey is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and affiliate of the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. His research looks at stratification and mobility with […]
This talk kicks off our Civic Lunch Speaker Series for Fall 2013. Live blogging contributed by Catherine D’Ignazio, Erhardt Graeff, Becky Hurwitz, and Rahul Barghava. About Annette Kim Annette M. Kim researches the spatial processes of major institutional change, particularly the reconstruction of property rights and planning paradigms in rapidly […]
I was sad to note today that, with 14 days to go, The New York City Opera has raised less than 10% of the ambitious $1 million target the organization set itself on Kickstarter earlier this month. The ‘People’s Opera’ has struggled in recent years. It closed its doors in […]